The story behind Stanley Kubrick’s never made epic, Napoleon is now in $700 dollar book form thanks to Taschen. New York Magazine wrote about it Human Resources is a bit apprehensive about anybody else attempting a film about the tiny French leader. Lit. Dear New York Times Book Review, Levi Asher thinks you look “like a Christmas catalog“. If you have a book called Sex Dungeon for Sale, the only natural thing to do to celebrate it’s coming out is […]
Michael Muhammad Knight and Islamic Punk Rock
“I stopped trying to define punk around the same time I stopped trying to define Islam.” –Michael Muhammad Knight
Bites: Howard Zinn, Tobi Vail on George Pelecanos, Shakespeare’s Pad, Alicia Jo Rabins and David Bazan on Faith and Art, and More
Over at The Millions, Jesse Ball reviews a year of reading, and makes us want to go buy the book pictured above. Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History (Seven Stories Press) “collects the works of outsiders, rebels, and disenfranchised Americans“. Over at the Bumpidee Reader, Tobi Vail reviews The Way Home, by George Pelecanos. “We are hoping to find organic debris that will teach us what the great man had for dinner.” Says Richard Kemp, of the Shakespeare Birthplace […]
Abraham Lincoln the Vampire Slayer
We have said all we could about zombies. In fact, we were really counting on Bob Powers to be right with his claim that werewolves are the right monster for these times, and maybe put the undead back in their graves. But no, Seth Grahame-Smith had to go and screw everything up again by announcing that in March, 2010, he is putting out Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. So now instead of zombies we get a dead president killing blood suckers. […]
Bites: Phone Booth Libraries, The Cows that Killed Jane Austen, Cormac McCarthy to Sell the Remains of His Writing Career, A Remnick Interview, and more
You know how England has much nicer looking phone booths than we do? Well it’d naturally be a shame to let those go to waste. In Somerset, a lending library! Lit. Jane Austen may have died from a strain of TB caught from cows. Jonathan Littell won Literary Review‘s Bad Sex in Fiction prize. Ugh, England’s got us beat all over the place today. Margaret Atwood’s new cover redesigns from Virago are sweet. Stendhal enters the digital age. Cormac McCarthy […]
Tao Lin gets Rational via Facebook
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Bites: Belle de Jour is Our New Favorite Hooker, Chabon in Boston, Literary Sausage, Coolio Cooks, Xiu Xiu, and More
Michael Chabon interviewed over at The Boston Globe. Lit. Move outta the way hooker with a heart of gold, Belle de Jour is the “new Pretty Woman” says The Rumpus. (Book Deal, TV series, etc.) At The Millions, they discuss “literary sausage parties“. Jack and Jill in French. Oprah can’t take publishing with her. Black Friday ideas. Be one of the masses. You can “curl up” with these books says The Huffington Post. Coolio has a cookbook in case your […]